Sarah Wayne Callies to Join Nicolas Cage in PAY THE GHOST

According to Deadline, former WALKING DEAD star Sarah Wayne Callies has signed on to join Nicolas Cage in PAY THE GHOST, to be directed by Uli Edel.

The film, from Voltage Pictures, follows Cage, "a professor whose young son goes missing during a Halloween parade in New York City. One year later he begins to sense his son's presence and uncovers clues leading to a vicious and vengeful ghost that surfaces each Halloween to abduct children. Callies will play Kristen, Cage's estranged wife and a whip smart environmental attorney who teams up with her husband to recover their son before he's lost to the spirit world forever."

Callies is well known for her role as Lori Grimes on the popular AMC series The Walking Dead. She was a series regular on the Fox series Prison Break (2005), playing the role of Dr. Sara Tancredi. Additional television credits include playing opposite Oliver Platt on NBC's drama Queens Supreme (2003) and playing Officer Jane Porter on the WB's Tarzan (2003). She has also appeared on Dragnet (2003), Law & Order: SVU (1999), and Numb3rs. She recently wrapped production on the film Black Sky in Detroit with director, Steven Quayle, and is scheduled to be released in 2013. Her additional movie credits include Black November (2012), Foreverland (2011), Black Gold (2011), Faces in the Crowd (2011), Lullaby for Pi (2010), Bittersweet (2008), Whisper (2007), and The Celestine Prophecy (2006).